CS ProfessionalCompliance Management, Audit and Due Diligence
Compliance Management, Audit and Due Diligence for CS Professional
Paper 3 · Group 1 · Section A Compliance & Secretarial Audit · Section B Due Diligence.
📊 Wholly descriptive · 100 marks · 3 hours
How toppers play this section
Secretarial audit is this hub's most distinctly CS-exclusive statutory function — know precisely which companies Section 204 applies to (the private-company borrowing threshold is the one candidates most often forget) and the exact form and filing route. Due diligence is scenario-driven: practise spotting which red flag belongs to legal versus financial due diligence, since exam questions are built to test exactly that distinction.
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Expected question counts from previous-year paper analyses. Topics with an arrow already have a full chapter.
| Topic | Seven papers in two groups, 700 marks (two papers are open-book electives) Q | Passing both groups, plus completed training, admits a candidate to ICSI membership Q | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance Management and Secretarial Audit | ~55 | Very high | |
| Due Diligence in Securities Issues, Mergers and Banking Transactions | ~45 | Very high |
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